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Mississippi
Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Mississippi.
454Documented
0In custody
390Released
Eras of repression in Mississippi
Where Mississippi’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
1960s 410
1930s 18
1970s 10
1950s 4
1910s 4
2010s 2
Recent dashboard entries from Mississippi
The newest published events and reporting located in Mississippi, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Thousands rally at the Old Capitol against redistricting and for voting rights
Protest
Marshall County residents rally against a proposed ICE detention facility
Protest
About 1,500 surround the Mississippi Capitol for a No Kings protest
Protest
No Kings rally at the DeSoto County Courthouse in Hernando
Protest
A coalition rallies against Elon Musk's xAI gas turbines near Memphis
Other
Mississippi newspaper ordered to remove op-ed critical of city officials
Documented cases
454 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Y
Yank Ellington
Yank Ellington was one of three Black defendants sentenced to death in Mississippi on murder charges supported...
M
Milton Esco
Released
Milton Esco participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.
L
Leotus Eubanks
Leotus Eubanks is individually documented in Charles Payne’s history of civil-rights-related custody in Missis...
R
Rosemary Freeman
Released
Rosemary Freeman was a Mississippi civil-rights fieldworker jailed in Winona in June 1963 after returning from...
W
Willie Galloway Jr.
Willie Galloway Jr. was reported taken into police custody in Canton, Mississippi, during the 1964 civil right...
J
James Edward Garrett
Released
James Edward Garrett was a 25-year-old Black man arrested by Marshall County, Mississippi deputies on a 1975 a...
D
D. C. Gates
D. C. Gates was secretary of the Dairy Farmers' Protective League and an individually named jailed picket in a...
E
Emily Gordon
Emily Gordon was arrested during the June 1965 voting-rights demonstrations in Jackson, Mississippi.
C
Claude O. Grant
Released
Claude O. Grant was a conscientious objector from Mississippi imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...
L
Lavone Hampton
Released
Lavone Hampton was a SNCC worker jailed in Holmes County, Mississippi in May 1963 following the firebombing of...
C
Curtis Hayes
Curtis Hayes is individually documented in Charles Payne’s history of civil-rights-related custody in Mississi...
P
Pete Hewitt
Released
Pete Hewitt participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.
T
Theodis Hewitt
Released
Theodis Hewitt worked on the Canton voter-registration campaign.
B
Bill Higgs
Bill Higgs was detained in Mississippi in the context of the civil-rights movement, as documented in Charles P...
A
Asa Hodges
Asa was a civilian planter and businessman connected with Memphis and Crittenden County, Arkansas arrested at...
D
David Holden
David Holden was a filmmaker associated with the Southern Conference Educational Fund and its Grass Roots Orga...
E
Ed Hollander
Released
Edward S. Hollander organized civil-rights work in Canton.
S
Smith Houey
Smith Houey was a Black farm laborer in official custody before a lynching at Michigan City, Mississippi on Au...
I
Isaac Howard
Isaac Howard is named in Page 2 among three Black Memphis defendants condemned at Hernando. The February 13 di...
K
Kid Boy Jackson
Kid Boy Jackson was a Mississippi sharecropper held in Magnolia jail after a deadly crop dispute.
Known in th...
L
Levi Jackson
Released
Levi Jackson participated in the Canton voter-registration campaign.
D
Dick Jewett
Released
Richard Jewett participated in Canton civil-rights organizing.
B
Bob Johnson
Released
Robert Edward Johnson was a Black civil-rights organizer in Grenada, Mississippi, and a conscientious objector...
J
Johnny Jones
Johnny Jones is named in Page 2 among three Black Memphis defendants condemned at Hernando. The February 13 di...
Institutions in Mississippi
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Mississippi that appear in the census’s case files.
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman)
11 cases
Mississippi state and federal courtsJackson, Mississippi
10 cases
Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm)Sunflower County, Mississippi
5 cases
Montgomery County Jail (Winona, MS)Winona, Mississippi
4 cases
Hinds County Jail / Laurel CourthouseLaurel, Mississippi
1 case
Pike County Jail / Magnolia (McComb, MS)Magnolia, Mississippi
1 case
Hinds County Jail (Jackson, MS)Jackson, Mississippi
1 case
Mississippi State Penitentiary at ParchmanParchman, Mississippi
1 case